3) Not a parliamentary republic, but a republic of
Soviets of Workers’, Agricultural Labourers’, Peasants’
and Soldiers’ Deputies.

(α) Abolition of the army, the bureaucracy and the
police.
(β) Salaries to officials.

4) Specifics of propaganda, agitation and organisation
in the period of transition from the first stage of the
revolution to the second. Maximum of legally
recognised rights.

Supporters, honest, but duped by the
bourgeoisie, of only “war through necessity”, “war
not for conquest”, and their deception by the
bourgeoisie.

5) The agrarian programme.
(α) Nationalisation. (Confiscation of all landed estates.)
(β) Each large-scale estate to be turned into a “model
farm” under the control of a Soviet of
Agricultural Labourers’ Deputies.

Notes

[2]Upon his arrival in Russia on April 3 (16), 1917, Lenin spoke
about the new tasks facing the Bolshevik Party at a meeting
of Petrograd Party workers organised that very night at the former
K&shat;esinska mansion to mark his arrival. His speech was apparently
based on the preliminary draft of the April Theses.